Undergraduate Arabic
Undergraduate Arabic
2024 Fall Term
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BEGINNING ARABIC I
ARABIC 141
In this first semester Arabic course, students will begin to learn how to speak, read, and write Arabic in its Modern Standard form (aka MSA). The class will also provide an introduction to the customs and culture of the Arab world.
GENDER IN THE MIDDLE EAST THROUGH FILM & LITERATURE
ARABIC 285
This course explores gender issues in the Middle East through texts and films created by authors and filmmakers from the Middle East. The Arabic-Speaking World is a focus of the course, but materials from Turkey, Iran, Pakistan, and others will also be explored. The course adopts an interdisciplinary approach. Besides primary sources, course materials include historical, critical and theoretical readings that bolster a deeper understanding of the specific issue or area under scrutiny. Agency, social and religious reform, masculinity, representation, citizenship, displacement, and nationalism are among the issues the course explores.